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title: Its area remained one square mile until 1952, when Suva annexed the… — Suva · tree and pragmatics
description: Its area remained one square mile until 1952, when Suva annexed the Muanikau and Samabula wards, expanding its territory to 13 km2. Who acts: area, Suva, Muanikau. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suva» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suva, sentence 20

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From Wikipedia, [«Suva»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suva), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Its area remained one square mile until 1952, when Suva annexed the Muanikau and Samabula wards, expanding its territory to 13 km2.

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**Who acts:** area, Suva, Muanikau · **What happens:** remain, annex, ward, expand · **To what, where:** one square mile, territory

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Suva». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (area, Suva, Muanikau), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Suva:20
# text = Its area remained one square mile until 1952, when Suva annexed the Muanikau and Samabula wards, expanding its territory to 13 km2.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	until	until	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1952	1952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	Suva	Suva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	annexed	annex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Muanikau	Muanikau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Samabula	Samabula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	wards	ward	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	expanding	expand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
24	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Ordinance's area | one square mile |  |  | until 1952 |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Attribute |
| 2 | **annex** | past | Suva |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ward** | present | the Muanikau and Samabula |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **expand** | gerund | the Muanikau and Samabula *not said here* | Ordinance's territory |  |  |  | to 13 | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent territory=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Suva», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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